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. 1993:705-9.

How useful is the UMLS metathesaurus in developing a controlled vocabulary for an automated problem list?

T H Payne  1 , D R Martin
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How useful is the UMLS metathesaurus in developing a controlled vocabulary for an automated problem list?

T H Payne et al. Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care. 1993.

Abstract

We are developing a set of problem list phrases to be used in the automated problem list of a prototype clinical computing system. Because of the large number of terms in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) and the links between them, we are experimenting with the use of the UMLS as the foundation for our problem list phrase set. We have found the UMLS to be very useful for this project, but that it lacks many phases clinicians wish to include in the problem list. Internal linkages between phrases provided in the UMLS are not well suited to our needs. We plan to continue our use of the UMLS but to add problem list phrases and linkages between phrases to support browsing and decision support applications.

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